Both Gale Virtual Reference Library and Oxford Online can be very useful for finding lengthy encyclopedia articles written by scholars. Fact-checkers and editors make these more reliable resources than Wikipedia.
Note: These resources are ONLY available to you while you are at Burris (or elsewhere on the Ball State campus).
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Description: Gale EBOOKS is a collection of searchable subject encyclopedias and other reference books from Gale Publishing and many other publishers.
Coverage: Current
Sources: Searches across more than 380 reference sources.
Subject Headings: Art, Architecture and Planning, Business, Communication, Media and Journalism, Education, English, Literature and Languages, Fine and Performing Arts, Health, Medicine, and Nursing, History and Culture, Political Science and Law, Philosophy and Religion, Mathematics and Science, Social Sciences, Technology
Material Types: Reference Entries

Description: Searchable and browsable collection of highly trusted reference books. Dictionaries and encyclopedias in Oxford Reference Online include general works, foreign-language works, and specialized subject works in the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences.
Coverage: Current
Sources: over 200 dictionaries and encyclopedias
Subject Headings: Art, Architecture and Planning, English, Literature and Languages, Fine and Performing Arts, History and Culture, Mathematics and Science, Philosophy and Religion, Social Sciences, Technology
Material Types: Reference Entries